cat ./about.md
hello, i'm alex
i'm a web developer based in portland, oregon
in my free time i enjoy hiking, camping, reading, photography, and more
welcome to my little corner of the internet
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Some Cool Stuff
Work
Experience
Engine Room Technology Company
2021-2026 - Remote
Eastern Standard
2016-2021 - Philadelphia, PA
Highlights
Senior Application Developer
- Full Stack Developer tasked with platform and website builds for businesses and organizations, non-profits, and e-commerce.
- Handled architecture decisions, project requirements, and assisted in client discovery meetings for new and existing projects.
- Ran numerous client demos and recurring meetings on project statuses and developed great working relationships with existing clients to ensure continued business.
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Projects
- Architected and developed an online platform for a California City School District's administrative certification program. Utilizing Single Sign-On for ease of access the platform moved existing paper forms into online forms that automatically tracked user progress through the program. Utilized Drupal 11, Single Sign-On with Microsoft Entra, and email functionality through a hook into Office 365 and Outlook.
- Rebuilt a buggy and incomplete WooCommerce checkout functionality for Bentley Systems that was causing a loss in sales. Upon completion the system was able to handle hundreds of millions of dollars in sales both in the United States and Internationally without issue. Utilized WooCommerce, Adyen payment processing, and Recurly for recurring subscriptions.
- Developed an all encompassing new website and platform for Henry.com in order to facilitate brand updates and consolidation of various small recently purchased companies and their websites. This platform served various purposes from product listings to documentation and a general Knowledge Hub for new and prospective buyers. Utilized Optimizely as the main CMS and commerce platform.
- Architected and developed a platform and API for signing digital assets that utilized user's phones for biometric authentication and signing of digital assets. Utilized the Symfony PHP framework, Amazon Cognito, ImageMagick, and React Native for iOS and Android applications.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Technical Stuff
- PHP
- C#
- Javascript
- React
- Remix.run
- jQuery
- SASS/SCSS
- SQL
- Git
- Drupal
- Wordpress
- Optimizely
- Symfony
- Composer
- NPM
- Webpack
- Gulp